“Digital Kung-Fu Fighters and Face Replacement for 6- “The One”” by Kleiser-Walczak
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 22
Title:
- Digital Kung-Fu Fighters and Face Replacement for 6- "The One”
Length:
- 1:42
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Kleiser-Walczak
Description:
Jet Li plays a police officer pursued by his evil alter ego from a parallel universe who seeks to kill him and become “The One.” Advanced face replacement techniques allow Li to fight his twin. Both faces are visible and fully expressive in close-ups. In the “chorus line” fight scene, Li’s superhuman velocity is conveyed by individually slowing the CG cop opponents while he moves at normal speed. Kleiser-Walczak used tracking software by Yannix, Maya for modeling and animation, Shake for retiming and compositing, and custom plug-ins co-developed with kolektiv.com.
Additional Contributors:
Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Durst
Visual Effects Producer: Susan Zwerman
Compositing Supervisor: Bob Peitzman
2D Paint & Rotoscope Supervisor: Fish Essenfeld
Special Thanks to RFX, Inc. Yannix Technology Corp. E-Film Gentle Giant Cyber FX Propmasters Post Logic Magritte’s Cow Nothing Real Alias Wavefront Poser
Modeling Supervisor: Gerard van Ommen Klöeke
2D Paint & Rotoscope Artists: Paul Carlos, Ray Cavalluzzi, Nicolle Cornute, Leah Nall, Mary E. Nelson, Brad Sutton
Modelers: Stephan Mann, Tim Rowlandson, Eric Sanford, Tao Tung
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Jeff Kleiser
Effects Animators: David W. Allen, Jeff Benoit, André Dupuy, Nathaniel Hunter, Jason Lazaroff
Additional Modelers: Tony Kafenhaus, John Nguyen
Visual Effects Supervisor: Ken Wallace
Render Manager: Tom Hendrickson
Executive Visual Effects Producer: Erika Walczak
Technical Character Animation Lead: Paul Jordan
I/O Manager: John Lee
Visual Effects Producer: Mark Ashton Hunt
I/O Coordinator: Martha Small
Visual Effects Coordinators: Colleen Bachman, Sandie Cam
Lighting Animators: Gina Di Bari, Sandy Tie Dong, Peter Greenstone, Alisa Loren Klein, Glenda Novotny, Scott Rays
Systems Administrator: Scott Lord
Asst. Visual Effects Coordinator: Danielle Costa
Systems Administrator/Render Wrangler: Lance Lones
Effects Animation Supervisor: Daniel Roizman
Character Animators: Lori Benson-Noda, Cory Rocco Florimonte, Bill Miller
Systems Advisor: Joe Hall
Character Animation Supervisor: Randall J. Rosa
Lighting Supervisor: Bruno Vilela
Effects Developers: Eyal Erez, Pranay Patel, Scot Shinderman
Modelers: Stephan Mann, Tim Rowlandson, Eric Sanford, Tao Tung
Compositors: Randy Brown, Chris Ciampa, Daniel Cobbett, Nicholas Gervay, Rimas Juchnevicius, Matt Kelly, John Rauh, Andrew Schwartz
